English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 68
Away went the captain to the ship, while another dinner was got ready.
What happens: go, get · To what, where: captain, dinner
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 dinner | det |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux:pass |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 got | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the captain | to the ship; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location captain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past · passive | another dinner | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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